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Saturday, October 11, 2014

First Light for MAVEN

Source - NASA Science News for October 10, 2014

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has reached Mars and it is beaming back "First
Light" images of the Red Planet's upper atmosphere. The data could help
researchers understand what transformed Mars from a hospitable planet
billions of years ago into a desiccated wasteland today.